Bernardo Bortolotti is Professor in economics at the University of Turin, Executive Director of the Transition Investment Lab at Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi, and Director of the Sovereign Investment Lab at Bocconi University in Milan. His research focuses on the complex relationships between state and markets, with special emphasis on state ownership of firms, regulation, corporate finance, corporate governance, and transition finance. He is one of the leading international experts in sovereign wealth funds, state-asset management and privatization. His work has appeared in major academic economics and finance journals, and he has published two books with Oxford University Press. He has been Executive Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He has advised the World Bank, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, the OECD, the Italian Ministry of the Economy as secretary of the Global Advisory Committee on Privatization, the Italian Audit Office, listed firms and public and private financial institutions. He holds a PhD in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain.